Recent Posts Tagged With 'productivity'

• BusyCal, an iCal Replacement, is not quite busy enough

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 08:04 in productivity, ical, writeroom, pogue, busycal

  Last week I installed and then de-installed BusyCal, a new and hotly touted iCal replacement. It was the product of the development team that created David Pogue’s favorite calendar, Now Up-to-Date, and I thought it promising since there really is...

• File System Infobase Manager

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 18:47 in Web 2.0, architecture, writing, productivity, bean, skim, being a writer, scrivener, writeroom, markdown, journler, devonthink

  I've posted a complete outline of my FIle System Based Info Manager on my web site. It's the tool I use to manage all my writing, notes, reference material, bibliographies, and records. It's based on Alex Payne's architecture ideas, Noguchi Yukio's o...

• Email as ToDo List

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 17:06 in Web 2.0, email, gtd, productivity, lifehacker, merlin mann, david allen, pogue, 43 folders

  David Pogue, the Technology Editor at the New York Times, has caused a stir with his last email update. In it he described a short list of his productivity secrets and to the gasps of GTD/David Allen proselytes the world over he declared that he uses...

• Agenda for America

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 14:09 in productivity, patriot act, air rage, jet travel, institutional conformity

  Agenda for America: After Quantanamo lets make Jet travel safe again. The LAT reported that 208 passengers have been convicted of terrorist activity under the Patriot Act over the past few years, often for raising their voices to Flight Attendants....

• Finally a Tech Savvy White House

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 08:12 in Web 2.0, Microsoft, media, obama, productivity, ted, photosynth, balckberry, whitehouse.gov

  CNN Technology gets swamped on inauguration day, and isn't sure what to do in "The Moment" with Photosynth . Perhaps they can take few lessons from the new tech savvy White House who is showing some chops in cyber space. PWND! --- Does anyone over at...

• Don’t jump to conclusions…

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 18:56 in philosophy, productivity, best of, ontological, institutional conformity, decision sciences

  It’s human nature; we find the quickest way to apply a map to a simple fact and extrapolate from it grand conclusions. The biologists say it’s evolutionary. It’s hard wired in us, they say, and it’s part of what makes us greater than the apes...

• Blogruptcy - It’s the metaphor

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 19:53 in Web 2.0, tools, productivity

  Productivity consultant Matt Cornell starts a conversation about "Blogruptcy" to which I reply that it's really all about the metaphor we use of being on "the shiny edge of an ever expanding bubble of posts". But that can change... ...